Facebook unveiled its new video calling feature this week right after Google+ came out and boasted with Hangouts (video chats with up to ten people). Unfortunately, Opera is not supported by Facebook for this feature at present. An Opera employee had the following to say about the matter:

The reason for Facebook’s block seems to be a problem with our version of Opera on OS X. Facebook’s plug-in installs itself as FacebookVideoCalling.webplugin on Mac, but our browser only recognises plug-ins with a .plugin extension. This causes their plug-in detection scripts to think the installation failed, triggering a renewed installation process. Our fearless engineers are working to fix this issue in Opera code as soon as possible, and we’re also in talks with Facebook to find a quick resolution to the problem. – Patrick H. Lauke, Web Evangelist in the Developer Relations Team at Opera

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Mmh, that’s what you say when you look negatively at this. Look positively, and you can say that Opera acknowledges the fact their browser is not perfect; they are open about this, and they actively take steps to improve the browser. Very mature behavior, in contrast to what others accuse Opera of. So yes, this is a fail on opera’s part.

Both of you are right in saying that Opera is taking the blame. For once.
I know no browser’s perfect (because otherwise we’d all be using it) but at least Opera acknowledges that its browser has bugs of its own and is working to fix them.
Question is: how long will it take?

Facebook video chat works fine in Opera for Windows if you mask as Firefox.

It doesn’t work on Mac because Facebook assumes that all browsers use Webkit, so it ignores Gecko (Firefox) and Presto (Opera).

What kind of test compliance are you referring to? You wouldn’t happen to be referring to the JS test that isn’t even close to finished, and tests things that isn’t even being used by sites? If so, that’s a major fail on your part.

Maybe because Microsoft have finally gotten serious about the browser space.
And to be honest I think they will make great competitors.
Wish Opera did more coding than marketing (like they used to do).

Where did you get the idea that Opera does more marketing than coding? Please, quit it with the trolling. You are just making yourself look like a nerdy kid who needs to take it out online because you are being bullied at school.

Great to see the progress IE is making on conforming to standards its good news for everyone,
still have plenty of catching up to do yet on HTML5 test but they are making rapid progress.http://html5test.com/results.html